The Electric Salad Days' Gestalt

Asher flashing the classic Autobot (v5) in Lower Chaos

Charlie working Big Worm (v13/14). I did all the moves of Mirror Mask (v10) yesterday which is the stand version of BW. AMAZING feature. Sadly, it was stupid hot up there yesterday and I will return Sunday to wrap that up.
Been trying the sit to Silverback called Chrome (v12), temps and humidity and my inconsistent schedule this summer have kept this one far from my reach.

The above two photos are from the Post Office in Chautauqua. The top photo is undone. The bottom photo I did and am calling it Poster Child (v5/6).

Today is a rest day, after thrashing myself on Big Worm, that I've decided to dedicate to doing a few case files, writing a poem, painting, and cleaning my hoopty and crib. Since I'm in Greeley next month, I'm trying to do a painting in a week so I don't leave it hanging. Most paintings take me about 6 months, a few quarts of dark beer, lots of good folk music, and loads of free time, but here we go.

The Electric Salad Days' Gestalt:

Blistering through Space and Time

Heart and soul may leaves me empty

I need my nervous system

my charged particles

too much soul leaves me

a rubber weed detached

and bombarded by over-ripe cucumbers

and dead fish

too much heart has an amnesia effect

and I find my way back to 8th grade fervor

aimless and overwhelmed with pointless goals

and arguments from the 17 hundreds

pacing and wishing for battle ships

and the aches of gory entrenchment

When my body electric speaks

it doesn't lie

it helps navigate through asteroid fields

and around loose planets and their gravitational pull

Sometime, when busy flying,

my sodium, calcium, and potassium channels

are at work

mending threads from heart

and soul's late nights wandering

Only so that when I awaken

from a brief nap at the wheel

happy to have dreamt,

an opening unperceived

was sought

but enough so that a gentle bow could be placed

walking on tip-toes

while I slept

and before word of another heart

having closed